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Video Games, Play, Design, Disrupt at the V&A (8 September 2018 - 24 February 2019), Installation Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
by James Pheby
LONDON (AFP).- A giant screen showing mesmerising landscapes from the hit video game "Journey" greets visitors to a major London show celebrating the industry's trailblazing fusion of technical genius and artistic vision. The exhibition at London's iconic Victoria and Albert Museum attempts to demystify the design process behind one of the world's most popular entertainment industries, focussing on the artistic contribution of games made after the creative explosion of the mid-2000s. The show's mantra, according to V and A chief Tristram Hunt is "operas made out of bridges" -- a phrase coined by US gaming expert Frank Lantz's to describe the multi-faceted nature of making a video game. The industry is a "fusion of art, craft, literature, cinema, fashion and music," Hunt said at the press opening, calling it "strikingly innovative, uniquely creative and commercially succesful. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on September 7, 2018 shows an ancient hache dated to the Middle Bronze age (2000-1500 BCE) being shown during a handing over ceremony attended by the US ambassador to Lebanon and the Lebanese Minister of Culture, at the Beirut National Museum in the Lebanese capital. The hache was discovered in the city of Byblos, about 37 kilometres north of Beirut, in archeological excavations in the late 1930s and was stolen during the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). It was found decades later at an auction held in Washington D.C. ANWAR AMRO / AFP
| Lévy Gorvy opens first exhibition organized by co-founder Brett Gorvy | | The largest ever work by Zao Wou-Ki, Juin-Octobre 1985, leads Sotheby's HK autumn 2018 sale series | | Spanish sculptures get kitschy colours in another botched restoration | 
Jean Dubuffet, Le Strabique (The Cross-Eyed Man), 1953. Collage with butterfly wings and gouache on paper board, 9 3/4 x 7 inches (24.8 x 17.8 cm). Private collection, courtesy Pace Gallery. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Tim Nighswander / IMAGING4ART.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy is presenting Intimate Infinite: Imagine A Journey, an exhibition inviting visitors to immerse themselves in the work of artists who collapse the vastness of infinity into tangible dimensions through obsessive detail, concentrated mark making, the distilled intensity of small scale, or the tactile materiality of their surfaces. On view through October 24, Intimate Infinite is the first exhibition organized for the gallery by Lévy Gorvy co-founder Brett Gorvy and includes nearly one hundred artworks by twenty-seven artists. His selection of paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures was inspired by William Blakes poem Auguries of Innocence: To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity ... More | | 
Zao Wou-Ki, Juin-Octobre 1985 (detail), oil on canvas (triptych), 280 x 1000 cm, 1985, estimate upon request. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys will present Juin-Octobre 1985, the largest-ever painting by Franco-Chinese artist Zao Wou-Ki, at its Modern Art Evening Sale on 30 September 2018 in Hong Kong. Measuring 10 metres long and 2.8 metres in height, this monumental and exceedingly rare triptych was commissioned personally by celebrated architect I. M. Pei for Raffles City in Singapore. Juin-Octobre 1985 is expected to fetch in excess of HK$350 million, a world auction record for the Zao Wou-Ki. This masterpiece will be available for public viewing during Sothebys Hong Kong Autumn Sales preview from 28 to 30 September. Vinci Chang, Sothebys Head of Modern Asian Art, comments: In the past few decades, works by Zao Wou-Ki have been widely collected by institutions in Europe, America and Asia, and have been exhibited in major retrospectives. As well as receiving critical acclaim at an institutional level, Zaos works are ... More | | 
The previously plain wooden carving also features a young Jesus in a bright green robe, while a third statue of Saint Peter now has him in blood red garments.
MADRID (AFP).- A Spanish parishioner has painted three 15th century sculptures in garish colours, giving Jesus a bright green robe in the latest botched amateur art restoration to make headlines in the country. A wooden statue of the Virgin Mary at the chapel in El Ranadoiro, a hamlet in the northern Asturias region that is home to just 28 people, was given a bright pink headscarf, sky blue robe and eyeliner. The previously plain wooden carving also features a young Jesus in a bright green robe, while a third statue of Saint Peter now has him in blood red garments. The makeover has led to comparisons with the botched 2012 restoration by an elderly parishioner of the "Ecce Homo" fresco of Jesus Christ in Borja which resembled a pale-faced ape with cartoon-style eyes. "It's crazy," said Luis Suarez Saro, who had previously restored the three El Ranadoiro sculptures in 2002-2003 with the regional government's approval. The ... More |
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| The world's first film poster achieves £160,000 in Sotheby's online sale | | Aretha Franklin dresses going on auction | | Christie's to sell the beautiful collection of the late Juan de Beistegui | 
Cinématographe Lumière (1896) poster, French. Artist: Henri Brispot (1846-1928). Framed Dimensions: 49 7/8 x 38 in. (126.7 x 96.5 cm) Unframed Dimensions: 41 1/2 x 29 3/4 in. (105.4 x 75.5 cm).
LONDON.- Cinématographe Lumière sold in this weeks online-only sale of Original Film Posters, achieving £160,000 - over 2.5 times the pre-sale high estimate of £40,000-60,000. The poster had been in a private French collection for over 40 years. The sale set a new record for a film poster sold by Sothebys, previously set at £42,000 in September 2017 by King Kong This is the ultimate collector's poster and a true museum piece. This poster was designed for the first ever public screening of a film, which took place on the 28th December 1895 in the Salon Indien of the Grand Cafe, on Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. It was a humble event, with an audience of less than thirty people in attendance, and lasted approximately twenty minutes. ... More | | 
Franklin's outfits are expected to fetch up to $4,000 each.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Weeks after Aretha Franklin's death, an auction house on Friday announced the sale of more than 30 dresses worn by the Queen of Soul. Julien's Auctions said the outfits would go on sale along with items from other musical icons on November 9 and 10 in New York. Franklin's outfits, expected to fetch up to $4,000 each, include a red sequined dress designed by Arnold Scaasi, the late designer best known for dressing US first ladies, which Franklin wore at a 1991 performance at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Other highlights include a knit jacket by luxury brand St. John that Franklin sported when she was presented the National Medal of the Arts in 1999 by president Bill Clinton. Julien's Auction did not reveal the owners of the outfits. Franklin, who grew up singing in her father's church and seized on her ... More | | 
Abtiquities of Mexico, Kingsborough, 1848. Estimate: 60.000-80.000. © Christies Images Ltd, 2018.
PARIS.- Christies has been entrusted to sell the beautiful collection of the late Juan de Beistegui which will be offered in Paris on September 10th at the time of La Biennale Paris. This legendary name reminds us of a golden age of collecting. The sale, which comprises around 160 lots estimated between 5 and 8 million euros, will offer a large selection of classical furniture and work of art, several of them with royal provenances. There will be also an important selection of books and three pieces of jewelry realized by Joël Arthur Rosenthal, better known as JAR, whose tribute to the collector will be published in the catalogue. This spectacular collection has been assembled by Juan de Beistegui who started buying works of art after he married Annick de Rohan-Chabot in 1959. Of course, the Beistegui name is very well ... More |
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| Exceptional exhibition brings together works by Alexander Calder and Joan Miró | | Exhibition showcases highlights from the private collection of Dawn and David Lenhardt | | Xavier Hufkens opens two-venue exhibition of new paintings and collages by Sterling Ruby | 
Joan Miró, Femme, oiseaux, 1976. Huile, gouache et bâtonnet à l'huile sur carton rayé / Olie, gouache en staaf met olie op karton / Oil, Gouache and oil stick on cardboard, 65.1 x 50.2 cm.
BRUSSELS.- Galerie de la Béraudière is presenting Calder, Miró and their Parisian Meetings, an exceptional exhibition that brings together works by the American sculptor and painter Alexander Calder (18981976) and the Spanish visual artist Joan Miró (18931983). The close friendship that connected these two giants of the twentieth century lasted many years: from 1928, the year they first met in Paris, to Calders death in 1976. Although they did not create an artistic movement together, they abundantly fed on one another and one often notices a striking parallelism between their work, which Galerie de la Béraudière invites you to discover from 6 September 2018 onwards. Both artists revolutionized the history of art thanks to their audacious use of techniques and materials that were unconventional for the time. With great enthusiasm and inventiveness, they explored new creative possibilities, freed ... More | | 
Ugo Rondinone, blue red mountain, 2016. Painted stone and stainless steel with pedestal. Image courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Copyright Ugo Rondinone.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Starting September 8, Phoenix Art Museum will present an exhibition of artworks by various masters of modern and contemporary art. Present Tense: Selections from the Lenhardt Collection showcases more than 20 paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures by artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst, Louise Lawler, and others, all drawn from the private collection of Dawn and David Lenhardt. The exhibition will also feature a recent Museum acquisition, entitled Narnia, by Brooklyn-based painter Shara Hughes, a contemporary artist who was a standout in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Both the exhibition and the acquisition are key elements of the Dawn and David Lenhardt Contemporary Art Initiative, a program launched in 2017 with the aim of strengthening the Museums focus on contemporary art. Present Tense will be on view from September 8 through December 16, 2018 in ... More | | 
Sterling Ruby, WIDW. RED SPITTING., 2018. Acrylic, oil, cardboard, and fabric on canvas, 144,8 x 110,5 x 5,1 cm. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting a two-venue exhibition of new paintings and collages by Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby. Rubys DRFTRS and WIDW series are two ever-evolving bodies of work that bear witness to the artists intense relationship with materials and his interest in issues such as sociocultural evolution, popular culture, and violence. Executed on paper, the DRFTRS (an acronym of drifter) are hybrid collages in which cut-and-pasted images occupy expressionistic landscapes. These nomadic elements, drifting through painterly space, are extracted from a vast image bank compiled by the artist. They reveal a myriad of current preoccupations including protest posters, horror movies, arts and crafts, album covers, orchids and poppies, snakeskins, stalagmites and stalactites, skulls and bones, prisons, archaeological excavations, and ancient artefacts. The painted backdrops ... More |
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| The Natural History Museum opens The Anning Rooms, an exclusive new space for Members and Patrons | | Italian architect Renzo Piano presents Genoa bridge plan | | Getting to the roots of our ancient cousin's diet | 
Anning Rooms Window. Photo: Trustees of the Natural History Museum.
LONDON.- The Natural History Museum announced that the Anning Rooms, an exclusive space for Members and Patrons, opened on 3 September. The rooms are named in celebration of Mary Anning (1799-1847), a pivotal figure in natural history. As an early 19th century fossil hunter, she made numerous important contributions to science throughout her lifelong exploration of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset. Located in the South Central Towers of the Grade I listed Waterhouse building, the long-unused rooms have been exquisitely refurbished and repurposed. They are accessed via a private door on the second floor of the Museum's central Hintze Hall, next to the giant sequoia exhibit. The space has been designed to meet the needs of the Museum's growing number of Members and Patrons. It includes a new restaurant, dining room and study. The brand-new interior celebrates nature down to the smallest detail - even the wallpaper print uses imagery from the Museum' ... More | | 
A picture shows the collapsed Morandi motorway bridge in Genoa on September 2, 2018. The giant motorway bridge collapsed on August 14, 2018 killing 43 people. MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- World-famous Italian architect Renzo Piano on Friday presented his plan for a replacement for the motorway bridge outside Genoa that partly collapsed in August, killing 43 people. "This bridge should last 1,000 years and should be made from steel," Piano told journalists in the north-western port city where he was born 80 years ago. His project would look a bit like a boat, be more subtle and be white "with its own brightness," said Piano. Although the architect said it was important not to rush the new bridge, regional leader Giovanni Toti insisted it would be ready by autumn 2019, "November at the latest." Demolition work on the still-standing sections of the bridge will begin this month , and the work will also require demolishing some residential buildings below. Genoa Mayor Marco Bucci said there would be an international competition to decide on "the ... More | | 
Paranthropus robustus fossil from South Africa SK 46 (discovered 1936, estimated age 1.9-1.5 million years) © Kornelius Kupczik, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
LEIPZIG.- Ever since the discovery of the fossil remains of Australopithecus africanus from Taung nearly a century ago, and subsequent discoveries of Paranthropus robustus, there have been disagreements about the diets of these two South African hominin species. By analysing the splay and orientation of fossil hominin tooth roots, an international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany), the University of Chile (Chile) and the University of Oxford (UK) now suggests that Paranthropus robustus had a unique way of chewing food not seen in other hominins, which seems to explain the unique suite of characters observed in this species. Food needs to be broken down in the mouth before it can be swallowed and digested further. How this is being done depends on many factors, such as the ... More |
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 The New Art Dealers Alliance adds 14 new gallery membersNEW YORK, NY.- The New Art Dealers Alliance, the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art, announced the addition of 14 new NADA Gallery Members to its international community. Hailing from 10 cities from 7 countries, the new members represent the organizations growth as it continues to develop year-round programming and resources. NADA facilitates strong and meaningful relationships with its gallery members, organizing a year-round roster of events, programs, and benefits for its members, as well as performances, discussions and events for the contemporary art community and the general public. In the coming months, NADA will focus on additional gallery programming and new initiatives for its members. Most recently, the organization held a collaborative exhibition on ... More Heritage Auctions returns to 'Asia Week' in New York with Fine & Decorative Asian Art Auction NEW YORK, NY.- A Rare and Important Tibetan Thangka Depicting Two Sakya Lineage Holders, Central Tibet, 13th-14th century is expected to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Fine & Decorative Asian Art Auction Sept. 11 in New York. The projected top lot is one of 24 thangka in the auction. The Sino-Tibetan thangkas in this sale includes thangkas of deity, mandala and Buddhist masters and the age of the thangkas ranges from 18/19th century to 13/14th century. Heritage Auctions Sept. 11, 2018 Fine Asian Arts Auction marks our return to New York to sell during Asia Week. Heritage Auctions Asian Art Director Richard Cervantes said. This sale features fine and rare Tibetan thangkas from private American collections. It is our expectation that interest in early Himalayan Buddhist art will remain high this season and that buyers will be pleased to see ... More Exhibition of new work by Kathy Butterly opens at James CohanNEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Thought Presence, an exhibition of new work by Kathy Butterly at the gallerys Chelsea location from September 6 through October 20. Thought Presence is Butterlys first solo exhibition at James Cohan. For more than two decades, Kathy Butterly has created striking, evocative sculptures that play between figuration and abstraction, contributing to and expanding the field of contemporary ceramics. Like George Ohr and Ken Price, who Butterly cites as key influences, she is an artist whose medium is clay and whose considerable ambitions are not tethered to the modest dimensions of her pieces. Butterlys oeuvre is defined by her process: she begins with a cast form, created by pouring wet clay into a plaster mold made from a generic, store-bought vessel, pinching and pulling and folding the clay until she ... More The Indian artist drawing portraits with a typewriterMUMBAI (AFP).- Clickety-clack, clickety-clack, ding rings out from a home in India's Mumbai where Chandrakant Bhide is creating his latest artwork -- on a typewriter. The 72-year-old thumps the keys of the bulky, manual machine to draw portraits of famous people, all bearing an unmistakeable resemblance to their subject. From politicians and film stars to cricketers, animation characters and religious symbols, Bhide has produced around 150 pieces of typewriter art over the past half century. "I have done many personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy. This is my hobby, my passion," he tells AFP. Bhide has held 12 exhibitions of his work and become something of a local celebrity since discovering his unique talent in the late 1960s while employed as a bank clerk. As a young man he had wanted ... More Wasteland makeovers bring creative cool to Paris suburbBOBIGNY (AFP).- Music throbs from a bar set up on a patch of scrubland and artists toil in what was once a tyre factory. This is the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, but not as the locals know it. Better known for concrete high-rises home to poor immigrants and France's highest crime rate, Seine-Saint-Denis is now welcoming flocks of Parisians to hipster oases that are bringing a welcome injection of cash and energy. When they set up in the northern suburb more than a decade ago, Soukmachines, a collective of young event planners, initially "had to clear what resembled a rubbish dump", recalls Anne-Sophie Levet. These days she is deputy head of La Halle Papin, a vast pop-up arts space in the solidly working-class neighbourhood of Quatre Chemins. In 2016, the local town hall had offered Soukmachines a year's use of the unoccupied tyre and ... More Burning in Water presents a series of sculptures by Borinquen GalloSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Burning in Water presents Borinquen Gallo: Like a Jungle Orchid for a Lovestruck Bee. The exhibition will feature a series of sculptures and a large-scale, immersive installation fashioned from intricately reconstituted street materials such as yellow and red caution tape, construction tarps, garbage bags, discarded hub-caps and debris netting. The exhibition will be on view through October 31. Devoid of overt figurative elements, Gallos sculptures nevertheless embody intensely personal and autobiographic qualities. Born in Rome to a Puerto Rican mother and an Italian father, Gallo subsequently spent her formative years living in the Bronx, where she continues to reside and maintains her studio. Despite their genesis in humble, disposable materials, Gallos totemic sculptures entail soaring, flourishing gestures ... 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More Polly Apfelbaum presents six of her space-consuming installations at Belvedere 21VIENNA.- At the Belvedere 21, the American artist Polly Apfelbaum reveals the relationship between six of her space-consuming installations for the first time. Her holistic composition comprising carpets handwoven in Mexico enters into a dialogue with the open, sunlit architecture of the museum. Her ability to define and transform spaces as well as the interdisciplinary and inviting nature of her art makes Polly Apfelbaum the ideal artist for the first exhibition on the reopened upper floor of the Schwanzer building, according to Stella Rollig, CEO and curator. Since the late 1980s, the American and international art world would have been unimaginable without Polly Apfelbaum. A characteristic feature of her multifaceted oeuvre is a hybrid aesthetic that merges traditions from sculpture, painting, arts and crafts, design and installation. The artist draws ... More Exhibition surveys Nagasawa Rosetsu's art through a selection of sixty of his most important paintingsZURICH.- For eight weeks, Japans most famous tiger will reside exclusively at Museum Rietberg in Zurich. The story goes that the Japanese artist Nagasawa Rosetsu (17541799) painted this monumental tiger together with its counterpart, a dragon, on the sliding door panels of the Zen temple Muryōji in a single night in the year 1786. Now the entire temples painted walls and a number of other, awe-inspiring masterpieces by Rosetsu are being shown for the first time outside of Japan. Rosetsus highly dynamic paintings created with vigorous brushstrokes and sometimes with his fingers, but also his delicate compositions painted with fine brushes and rich colour are replete with energy, wit and modern appeal. Renowned as one of the most eccentric and imaginative artists in early modern Japan, Nagasawa Rosetsu (17541799) produced visually exciting, ... More The Museum of Arts and Design examines the future of craft in new exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design is presenting MAD Collects: The Future of Craft Part 1, featuring more than fifty works of craft, art, design, and jewelry acquired for the permanent collection over the past five years. Curated in connection to The Burke Prize 2018: The Future of Craft Part 2, MAD Collects showcases and champions the dynamic field of art and design practices that sustain, expand, and interpret the craft media the Museum was founded to support. The exhibition encompasses works by more than forty-five artists, including Derrick Adams, El Anatsui, David Bielander, Sanford Biggers, Wendell Castle, Judy Chicago, Josh Faught, David R. Harper, Sana Musasama, Bayne Peterson, Verena Sieber-Fuchs, Barb Smith, Cauleen Smith, Adejoke Tugbiyele, and Dorian Zachai. "With MAD Collects, we are demonstrating our commitment to ... More Leslie Hewitt presents a new set of photographs at Perrotin ParisPARIS.- For her first exhibition at Perrotin Paris, the American artist Leslie Hewitt (born in 1977 in New York) presents a new set of photographs drawn from the series Riffs on Real Time. The set is accompanied by a new trajectory including colour grounds (unobstructed photograms and digital chromogenic prints) and minimalist sculptures. Associating vernacular snapshots with archival documents photographed against textured motifs, the compositions that make up Riffs on Real Time are rooted in an idiosyncratic reaction to post civil rights and postindustrial americana (195089). The complex arrangement of the material brings to mind Photoshop-based montages and the visual manipulations that are spread online, and invites us to question, in the tradition of conceptual American photography (John Baldessari, Allan Sekula, Taryn Simon, etc.), the power ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter Maria Lassnig was born September 08, 1919. Maria Lassnig (8 September 1919 - 6 May 2014) was an Austrian artist known for her painted self-portraits and her theory of "body awareness". She was the first female artist to win the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1988 and was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2005. Lassnig lived and taught in Vienna from 1980 until her death. In this image: Maria Lassnig, 3 Ways of Being (3 Arten zu Sein) 2004. Oil on canvas 126 X 205 cm. © 2008 Maria Lassnig. Courtesy of the artist, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
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